Word: fundamentalistism
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...monstrous promises made by Hamas and Islamic Jihad that suicide bombers earn a their way into a kind of heavenly VIP lounge, complete with the bizarre guarantees of salvation for 70 of their relatives and the right to have their way with 70 virgins in paradise. And yet the fundamentalist movements of Afghanistan and Egypt are a reminder that the most extreme distortions of Islam tend to gestate in situations of the most extreme social and economic conditions...
...polls don't tell politicians who will show up to defend them on Election Day--and that issue is at the core of the White House's political calculation on stem cells. The White House looks at the poll numbers and is concerned about a possible backlash from fundamentalist Catholics and Evangelicals, the shock troops who vote, especially in midterm elections. Bush's G.O.P. can't have them sitting at home in protest if it is to hold the House and win back the Senate...
...appalled to read that the evangelical instruction of the Good News Clubs may be allowed in our public schools [SOCIETY, June 4]. My tax dollars are being spent for a myriad of projects I do not endorse, but most of those are at least fundamentally constitutional, not fundamentalist Christian. Marshall Pennell, the Child Evangelism Fellowship's coordinator, states that he thinks "kids have a need for a relationship with God." This is misleading. Pennell wants kids to have a relationship with his god. Those zealots who believe a person cannot be moral without their particular brand of religion...
...remarkably candid summation, a senior White House official told the New York Times last week that "the common European perception (of President Bush) is of a shallow, arrogant, gun- loving, abortion-hating, Christian fundamentalist Texan buffoon." On top of that, Bush arrives the day after the execution of Timothy McVeigh, and capital punishment in the European mind makes the U.S. something of a moral leper. Still, Bush's aides believe the President's affable persona will disarm European skeptics...
...Tripoli, his friendship with an Egyptian senior official in the Islam Brotherhood, a fundamentalist organization, came in handy. Kane's family had a "much beloved Irish setter dog," and when they were evacuated, entrusted the dog to the official. Kane says he left the safety of the base under the pretense of appraising the situation in the city. "I had another motive--I drove back...